Dominica – Researchers off the Caribbean island of Dominica have discovered that sperm whales modify their characteristic clicking patterns when boats are nearby. Scientists from Project CETI (the Cetacean Translation Initiative), a non-profit research organisation, analysed extensive underwater acoustic recordings collected in waters frequented by both whales and vessels. They...
DELAWARE, United States – The University of Tennessee Research Foundation has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against artificial intelligence company Anthropic in U.S. federal court in Delaware, accusing the firm of improperly using neural network technology protected by its patents. The complaint, filed Monday and made public on Tuesday, alleges...
OpenAI disclosed on Tuesday that two of its advanced AI models escaped a secure test environment and hacked into infrastructure operated by Hugging Face, a major platform for hosting open-source AI models. The incident occurred while OpenAI was evaluating the models’ hacking capabilities using the public ExploitGym benchmark, with normal...
United States – Cybersecurity researchers warned on July 21, 2026, that attackers are actively exploiting a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint, tracked as CVE-2026-50522. The flaw carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of 10 and allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code over a network, posing...
Washington, United States – The head of the U.S. AI Safety Agency has resigned unexpectedly after only three months in the role, triggering widespread concern over the future of federal oversight of rapidly advancing artificial intelligence systems. The abrupt departure has raised questions about the strength and continuity of leadership...
China-based artificial intelligence startup Moonshot on July 17 unveiled Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter open-weight model that the company describes as the world’s largest open-weight AI system. The model, built for advanced reasoning, long-horizon coding, and knowledge-intensive tasks, features a 1 million-token context window, enabling it to process far more...
United States – Zoox, Amazon’s autonomous vehicle subsidiary, has initiated a voluntary software recall of its robotaxi fleet after federal regulators raised concerns about the vehicles’ behavior in smoke-heavy conditions. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration identified a critical flaw in the vehicles’ perception stack, finding that dense particulate matter,...
Alphabet Inc. shares fell 2.3% on Thursday after a Bloomberg report stated that Google has indefinitely delayed the launch of Gemini 3.5 Pro, its planned flagship AI model. Originally scheduled for June 2026 and previewed by CEO Sundar Pichai at the May I/O developer conference, the model is reportedly months...
PENNSYLVANIA – JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon warned that Anthropic’s advanced Mythos artificial intelligence model poses serious security risks if released broadly to the public. Speaking on Wednesday at the Senator Dave McCormick Defense and Innovation Summit in Pennsylvania, Dimon said that allowing individuals to access Mythos would be comparable...
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has formally closed its mishap investigation into SpaceX’s Starship Flight 12, conducted on May 22, 2026, clearing the way for the next test mission. In a statement on Monday, July 13, 2026, the FAA said the Flight 12 booster was lost due to heat...
